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ADNews-Nimba: The inhabitants of Zorgeipa Town, located in Nimba County, face severe challenges in accessing safe drinking water amidst global climate change awareness.
By Joseph Tumbey
The creek, which serves as their major source of drinking water from generation to generation, and two hand pumps have suffered drought, can no longer contain water during the dry season over the past few years.
The shortage of water has posed serious labor-intensive problems, especially for women and girls who have to walk miles away or 30-minute distance to get safe drinking water for their homes.
Despite Nimba being a rich mineral resource county and the home of the current Vice-President, Jeremiah Koung, many towns like Zorgeipa and others continue to face a safe water crisis, posing health-related issues on citizens.
Speaking with some of the residents, Prince Gbormie, a prominent resident serving as the youth chairman of the town, narrated that their community is currently at risk as many have been suffering from diarrhea, dysentery, and typhoid.
“This was not happening before, our people used to get used to get water from the creek year-round,” Prince explained. But currently, we can’t easily get water when it’s dry season, making many people sick because the very water we walk miles to get is not safe to drink compared to our normal source of water.”
Samuel Zarwolo emphasized that “we have two hand pumps in the town, but even the pumps get dry, and the creek that used to serve us without season can’t no longer serve us during the dry season, which is strange, and we don’t know what is happening
A pregnant resident, Ms. Cecelia M. Suah, voiced her frustration over the situation.
According to Cecelia, the shortage of safe drinking water has left them with no choice but to collect water from anywhere, manage to purify it for drinking.
Zorgeipa’s residents are calling on the government and international aid providers to swiftly intervene and save them from outbreak.
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